Nepotianus seized Rome in June 350 AD, his claim resting largely on his maternal connection to Constantine I. His reign lasted twenty-seven days before Magnentius's general Marcellinus crushed the revolt and had him beheaded, his head paraded through the streets on a pike. That extreme brevity makes any coinage struck in his name extraordinarily rare — Rome's mint barely had time to produce a coherent series before the usurpation collapsed entirely.
RIC VIII 202 is among the scarcest issues in the fourth-century Roman bronze sequence by any reasonable measure of surviving specimens.
Nepotianus seized Rome in June 350 AD, his claim resting largely on his maternal connection to Constantine I. His reign lasted twenty-seven days before Magnentius's general Marcellinus crushed the revolt and had him beheaded, his head paraded through the streets on a pike. That extreme brevity makes any coinage struck in his name extraordinarily rare — Rome's mint barely had time to produce a coherent series before the usurpation collapsed entirely.
RIC VIII 202 is among the scarcest issues in the fourth-century Roman bronze sequence by any reasonable measure of surviving specimens.